Legal Opinion
In Re the Welfare of the Children of Coats
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Decided August 23, 2001No. CX-99-2142PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
LANCASTER, Justice.
In August 1999, appellant Hennepin County Department of Child and Family Services (DCFS) filed a petition seeking termination of respondent Deloris Coats’ parental rights to her four children. A pretrial hearing was scheduled for October 12, 1999, and trial was set for November 23, 1999. Although Coats had received notice of the pretrial hearing, she failed to appear. After allowing Coats’ attorney to withdraw from representation and after hearing testimony from a child protection worker, the district court terminated Coats’ parental rights by default on the merits.…
2Cases cited6 opinions
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- State Ex Rel. Butler v. SwensonSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1954
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